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Getting some studwork walls in our new office that I've yer to sign the lease for. Happy withe joiners quote but he asked along his electrician as we will also have a few sockets and light switches. Each exiting wall has around 5 double sockets 2,3m apart and have a 16 Amp circuit breaker the mini type. Electrician not happy to add three double sockets for the work kitchen area, kettle, fridge, microwave ( be nice to put a slimline dishwasher in too) and wants to rip out and replace the board too for North of £6k. It's an office for maybe 15 people and use will be laptops and a few pics. It's got gas central heating so no electric heater. I know I'll need a second opinion but is this a bad install by the Romanian guys who did the refurbishment for the landlord. It's got a completion certificate but I have not yet seen it...bit worried about this now

The other hoose does have rooms etc but can't work out what one has the toilet.

Okay so I think it was added in 70s but what colour is the Armitage Shanks classic.

Show us some pictures please

Finish this off, very happy with the neoprene tube product. Floor waxed and job done. The picture if of a very uniform gap but it coped with less and more. It's about how much you stretch it for thinner gaps.

Thanks @Nickfromwales

To finish this off, the pipe in the wall had indentations from over tightened previous crocodile rings so solvent weld wasn't looking good. Used the McAlpine flexy with compression fitting and it held very tight. Now out the wall the end of the flexy was jointed to the existing using the rubber joiner from saniflow. Job done.

Update bought the 6mm roll and have it a try Think it's got promise The floor has to be cleaned and prepared and touched up for scratches and waxed. Then this stuff. Will post the finished results.

I've looked at the reviews for Draught Ex and for £31 it looks like it's worth a go. Basically a foam tube that you stretch and ram into the gap, black in colour so if pushed well in creates a shadow. Seems the trick is gauging the amount of stretch to make it thin with the amount of ramming in to the correct depth. It then expands so you get a nice flexible deal. Reviews say it can be hard on the old knees but if you take time a good result. My knees are too sore so if the youth want a lesson then crack on, it's up to them. Do we do too much for our little darlings now that they are 23 and returned to home city after graduation...that said at 23 I had completed apprenticeship, bought a flat on an endowment mortgage and sprog number one was a year away. Old days old days

Plan was to fit laminate flooring so lifted carpets and found this. 100 year old Glasgow tenament fairy solid but 6 to 10mm gaps. Read quite a lot but as it in good nick would want to nail the odd squeaky board then wax it. I'm thinking a squirt od black silicone for the gaps afterwards? What says the forum? 2nd floor so no real ventilation issues. More the gaps collect grime.

Something like this

Maybe @Nickfromwales What you don't see is the waste pipe 45mm that the rubber connector is jubilee clipped to. plan A, solvent weld from that back towards the saniflo then drop from 45 to 40mm and use existing rubber connection to the ugly (expletive deleted)er

Well, fitted but it is still leaking. I need advice, can I replace this with solvent weld ?

I will update this in case it's of any interest to others...

This is leaking and in operation as the pump burps the pipe moves so guess this is why we need the ribbed flexibility.

Hard to say on the forum...plan B is to cut it off using a multitool. Then replace. I still think the seat can come off and maybe use a couple of G clamps to fully retract the housing. ??? It's not easy to offer suggestions without being there in person

Thanks folks @nod this is your specialist area...?

I think you want to press the grey plastic tube into the pan seat...is it on a spring? And lift the seat free if you can. Then the screw, use a powered tool and unscrew but at the same time gently lever up the metal fitting so it's pulling as it turns. Obviously protect the porcelain from scratching.

We have a potential new office and its open plan rectangle. An old shop unit 5m frontage and 24m deep. I want to put in stud walls 3.6m high to make two rooms, interview room and training room. Dims are 3.6 m high, walls 8m and 3 @3.5m so 18.5m x 3.6m gross. 4 big windows, single glazed fixed panes just to let light in. 2 x doorframes and doors etc. 4x2 battens, plasterboard, filled with rockwool, plastered, painted and skirtings. And a small kitchen fitted, sink, 2 base units, worktop, 2 wall units. Been quoted £13k, any thoughts on this for value? We have to buy the kitchen units, everything else down to the builders. Its from the guys that are currently on site who are basically fitting out after a full back to walls rip out, so new framing, plasterboard walls, ceiling, electrics and heating, they are currently working for the landlord but we responsible for internals.

Quick question. I now have the joy of fixing this, is it okay to use McAlpine compression fittings below this timber floor? There's little to no access other than through the floor once it's done meaning ripping up the floorboards and finished engineered timber final floor finish. @Nickfromwales Two elbow bends and a boss to attach to the soil pipe that's down there

The elderly parents in law have been in dispute with a nightmare extension. They are very independent and want to deal with it themselves but after a call with the wife the other night they admitted it's really really getting to them to the point they are considering selling up. So called around today to look at the blocked sink and traced it back to this. What you see here is the sink waste exiting the back wall of the legacy house on the right. On the left is the joist of the new extension. We think the elbow bend was the original waste from the old kitchen but it was crumbling in my hands and there's a clear 4" between it and the pipe below. Wasn't connected, the whole lot covered on gravel and old brick/ stones and this is where the kitchen sink and dishwasher has been going for months, FFS.

I misread the bit about bubble bath as bubble wrap...stuff if full with bubble wrap instead...? @Conor speaks sense, stick them on gumtree or eBay and have a curry

But Putin can sit at the end of the dining table...

It's on a hill overlooking an estuary...white render all over and window detailing...

Stuff it fully in the pipe just in case it wriggles free